South Korea said the exercises showed it would “strongly respond to any provocation”.
South Korea’s military said on Wednesday that it had fired three precision air-to-surface missiles near the sea border where the North Korean ballistic missile landed earlier in the day.
The missiles were “launched into water at a distance from the area near the northern border line where the North Korean missile struck,” said a statement, adding the exercise showed Seoul “will respond strongly to any provocation.” “.
The military said it was “the first time since the peninsula was divided” at the end of hostilities in the Korean War in 1953 that a North Korean missile had landed so close to the South’s territorial waters.
“President Yu reported today that North Korea’s provocation is an effective territorial offensive by missiles that crossed the northern boundary line for the first time since partition,” his office said in a statement.
The military said the missile closest to South Korea landed in water just 57 kilometers (35 miles) east of the South Korean mainland.
The military issued a statement describing the missile launch near South Korean waters as “very rare and unbearable”.
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